I couldn't get an answer
from your door, so went
round the back, but the curtains
were still drawn
and I couldn't see.
I 'd seen you the evening before:
you talked of Shakespeare
and brushing up your Latin;
and your daughter came,
and my daughter came to clean,
and another friend dropped by
unaware you were soon to die.
You had talked with me
of your army days,
before the war
and through it;
of your youth
and childhood days
and school;of the Glasgow
gang boys you trained
to be better men and soldiers;
and the helping of the parish priest
with his Latin;
me you treated like a son,
and I you as a grandfather
I no longer had.
You died dear friend,
the night before
the morning that I came
to knock and wait.
Wait for me my friend
when I die and meet my end.
Oct 8, 2017
Oct 8, 2017 at 3:44 PM UTC
I couldn't get an answer
from your door, so went
round the back, but the curtains
were still drawn
and I couldn't see.
I 'd seen you the evening before:
you talked of Shakespeare
and brushing up your Latin;
and your daughter came,
and my daughter came to clean,
and another friend dropped by
unaware you were soon to die.
You had talked with me
of your army days,
before the war
and through it;
of your youth
and childhood days
and school;of the Glasgow
gang boys you trained
to be better men and soldiers;
and the helping of the parish priest
with his Latin;
me you treated like a son,
and I you as a grandfather
I no longer had.
You died dear friend,
the night before
the morning that I came
to knock and wait.
Wait for me my friend
when I die and meet my end.
